Exploring the Effect of Repetition in "The Turtle" breaks from the blue-black
skin of the water, dragging her shell
with its mossy scutes
across the shallows and through the rushes
and over the mudflats to the uprise,
to the yellow send
to dig with her ungainly feet
a nest, and hunker there spering
her white eses down
into the darkness, and you think
Which repeated word helps create rhythm in the
second and third stanzas of the poem?
O "she
O "crawling"
"spring
O "skin"
of her patience, her fortitude.
her determination to complete
that she was born to domme
and then we realisereater things